Last night, my kids had an epic Halloween haul. It turns out our new neighborhood is some kind of Trick-or-Treat nirvana, and they came home with a combined 11-pounds of candy (not even kidding). If you have a similar situation at home, whether from your own kids or candy you have left over from handing […]
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Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, some interesting process shots from user Shigeru Kanemoto, who’s used a Craft ROBO brand paper-cutting robot to prepare a stencil for applying solder paste to a PCB in preparation for SMT assembly. Uppermost, the stencil freshly cut; immediately above, solder paste applied. Cool idea, with a few more shots in Shigeru-san’s photostream.
Continue ReadingAdmit it, if I hadn’t put “twig” up in the headline for this post, you never would have guess what these adorable ice skate ornaments are made from, right? See how Michele of Michele Made Me created this clever reuse project over on her blog. [via @SisterDiane]
Continue ReadingIt’s not every day you get to see a demonstration of something that previously only existed in works of fiction. I’m sure we’ve all seen the clunky video of highly stylized humanoid robots like the Asimo or the eerily visceral quadruped Big Dog. Nothing will prepare you for the life like movements of Boston Dynamic’s PETMAN. The closest approximation would be the CGI animations of the robots from the 2004 blockbuster ‘I, Robot.’
Continue ReadingThe revolution will be automated! Gone are the days when you’d have to practice drawing big letters legibly with a rattle can in order to get your message across. Thanks to the folks at Graffiti Research Lab France, you need only walk along the perimeter wall with your finger on the button of their spray paint graffiti printer.
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